madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)

v0.75
* fixed: v0.74 stopped decoder DirectShow filter from being released properly
* fixed: PotPlayer sometimes crashed when switching video files
* fixed: internal decoders made problems with cropped MKVs & Haali Splitter
* fixed: OSD sometimes didn't appear in ZoomPlayer in exclusive mode
* fixed: VP70 decoder showed video upside down
* fixed: RGB24 input sometimes crashed madVR
* fixed: ffdshow RGB input level detection sometimes failed
* subtitles run through the 3dlut now, too
* internal decoders are now auto disabled if required decoder dlls are missing
* added option to scale Luma in linear light, disabled by default
* RGB input with unknown range is now treated by default as full range
* added detailed information about matrix, primaries and levels to debug OSD
* updated libav/ffmpeg dlls


v0.76
* fixed: crash on MPC-HC exit / close file
* fixed: OSD didn't show properly or didn't show at all
* fixed: subtitles showed with a black backgroudn
* fixed: trade quality -> use 10bit chroma option was used for luma sometimes
* unfortunately subtitles are not running through 3dlut, anymore

v0.78


* added support for DXVA2 deinterlacing
* added option to enable/disable automatic activation of deinterlacing
* added option to force off deinterlacing for 48i sources
* added option enable/disable performing deinterlacing in a separate thread
* added auto 4:2:2/4:4:4 to 4:2:0 conversion when using DXVA2 deinterlacing
* added OSD deinterlacing information
* Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D turns deinterlacing on/off
* Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F switches deinterlacing field order (auto, top, bottom first)
* changed gamma decrease key combo from Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B
* increased decoder queue size to 12 frames
* added support for h264 10bit 4:2:2 decoding
* improved frame stepping
* improved internal frame locking mechanism
* removed warning "creating 10bit render texture failed, used 8bit instead"
* updated libav/ffmpeg dlls

v0.79


* modified deinterlacing logic to save GPU RAM
* added resource manager to save GPU RAM and a little bit of GPU performance
* added information about used / total GPU RAM to debug OSD (Ctrl+J)
* added new options to choose decoder and GPU queue sizes
* added automatic adjustment of queue sizes, based on GPU RAM size
* corrected queue sizes with deinterlacing turned on (size 1 too high in v0.78)
* improved deinterlacing quality at the start of playback and after seeks
* improved the way madVR calls DXVA2 (now more similar to EVR)
* moved some eventually CPU intensive code from render to separate thread
* optimized performance of DXVA2->PixelShader texture conversion for some GPUs
* optimized internal libav decoder format conversion logic
* movie frame rate overwrite via file name now also set deinterlacing on/off
* option "perform deinterlacing in separate thread" is now "on" by default
* MPC-HC OSD text "Pausa" is now blocked (to avoid disappearing subtitles)
* fixed: source cropping (J.River MC) could result in corrupted chroma channel
* fixed: IMediaSample allocator wasn't fit for decoder queue size of 12 frames

v0.80


* added IVTC algo with decimation and support for 3:2, PAL and Anime cadences
* Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T switches between video (DXVA) and film (IVTC) content type
* fixed: moving media player to another monitor made DXVA deinterlacing crash
* fixed: DXVA deinterlacing produced wrong colors (only with HD videos + ATI)
* fixed: after a refresh rate change the composition rate didn't update
* fixed: calculation of consumed GPU RAM was wrong
* fixed: minimizing ZoomPlayer with playing video made some problems
* fixed: v0.79 didn't always detect external refresh rate changes
* fixed: some h264 AVI files made madVR crash, depending on the splitter
* fixed: improved internal decoder MPEG2 timestamp handling
* fixed: zooming video extremely small made madVR close the media player
* fixed: video was positioned wrong when media player cropped top/left
* fixed: a couple of small Direct3D related bugs
* fixed: a little resource leak
* improved presentation timestamp correction a bit
* improved "IMadVRExclusiveModeInfo::IsExclusiveModeActive"
* improved "IMadVRExclusiveModeControl::DisableExclusiveMode"
* added window size checks to detect to-be-expected exlusive mode failures
* added new interface "IMadVRDirect3D9Manager" for XBMC (work in progress)
* modified automatic queue sizes
* improved logging during media player shutdown

v0.81
* added automatic exception catching functionality
* added manual freeze report functionality (press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Break)
* added option to switch display mode only when media player is in fullscreen
* added option to restore display mode when media player leaves fullscreen
* display mode changer now reacts on film (24p) vs. video (60p) content type
* improved renderer behaviour when display mode changes
* improved ivtc: faster detection of cadence changes
* improved ivtc: more robust against compression artifacts
* deint + ivtc is now auto activated for 60i movies which are tagged to 24 Hz
* ivtc is now auto activated for 50i movies which are tagged to 25 or 24 Hz
* deinterlacing is only turned on for 50i and 60i movies now
* added patch to MS VC-1 decoder -> deinterlacing off
* modified file name tagging logic (24p, 24i, 24fps, 24Hz, etc)
* improved behaviour with decoders which don't output proper interlaced flags
* improved exclusive -> windowed mode behaviour slightly, mainly for ZoomPlayer
* added "sharpness: 100" option for Bicubic scaling
* queue sizes are now always 16/8 by default, no more automatic adjustments
* keyboard shortcuts: always only change things temporarily by default now
* keyboard shortcuts: some changes (not all) can be stored by pressing F2 now
* the source levels (TV vs PC) can be stored now
* the source content type (film vs video) can be stored now
* key presses are now only "swallowed" if media player process has key focus
* osd keyboard handling runs in its own thread now
* added many more languages to the "Pause" MPC-HC message block
* used GPU RAM is now shown in osd, anymore
* increased upload thread priority slightly
* fixed: ZoomPlayer eventually froze when leaving exclusive mode
* fixed: some users had composition rate in exclusive mode OSD -> problems
* fixed: crash when video window size was reduced to a very small size
* fixed: frame stepping sometimes resulted in weird play/pause mixed state
* fixed: one case where "delay playback start..." resulted in paused state
* fixed: v210 pitch/stride handling was broken
* fixed: YV24 had swapped chroma channels
* fixed: YV24 DXVA deinterlacing resulted in image corruption
* fixed: OSD API didn't capture mouse events on mouse down

v0.82
* added: new option to activate deinterlacing if in doubt whether it's needed
* added: new IVTC option to only look at pixels in the frame center
* added: IVTC "cadence breaks" information to OSD; resets with Ctrl+R, as usual
* deinterlacing + IVTC are now always forced on for 60i sources tagged as 24Hz
* improved IVTC cadence logic
* improved DXVA deinterlacing behaviour slightly
* improved display mode change event handling
* improved exclusive -> windowed switch a little bit more
* fixed: madVR sometimes didn't notice changed display mode
* fixed: if DXVA2 deinterlacing was not available in XP, it made madVR crash
* fixed: crash when moving madVR to another display with ZoomPlayer
* fixed: freeze when switching subtitles in paused state
* fixed: closing down madVR didn't always wait for the closing to complete
* fixed: closing the media player while madVR was in exclusive mode -> freeze
* fixed: sometimes asking for a freeze report created multiple reports at once
* fixed: MS DVD Navigator caused error in the primaries/matrix auto detection
* fixed: when switching from Bicubic to SoftCubic, options weren't updated
* fixed: red error messages were supposed to disappear after a while but didn't
* fixed: red error messages no longer show duplicate error messages


v0.82.1
* fixed: playback is sometimes stuck with a black screen (introduced in v0.82)
* fixed: seeking sometimes results in frozen video frame (introduced in v0.82)


v0.82.2
* fixed: SoftCubic was stuck on "softness: 50" (introduced in v0.82)
* fixed: in certain situations there was a new freeze (introduced in v0.82)
* fixed: PotPlayer crashed sometimes when turning audio processing on/off
* fixed: option "if in doubt activate deinterlacing" didn't work properly


v0.82.3
* fixed: Ctrl+C / File Close didn't work in MPC-HC  (introduced in v0.82)
* fixed: Ctrl+E in MPC-HC didn't work  (introduced in v0.82)
* fixed: finalization crash due to stupid bug  (introduced in v0.82)


v0.82.4
* fixed: 2 more finalization crashes
* fixed: display mode changer stopped working after a 2nd video file was loaded
* fixed: filter properties dialog didn't show the full madVR version number

madVR v0.82.5 released


Code:
* improved D3D11 exclusive -> windowed switch slightly, still not great, though
* option "delay playback start..." now requires both GPU+CPU queues to be full
* fixed: YCgCo decoding matrix was not correct
* fixed: internal 4:4:4 decoding produced wrong colors (introduced in v0.81)
* fixed: display mode changer didn't always activate when entering fullscreen
* fixed: forcing deinterlacing + IVTC on was caused by 30p tag instead of 24p
* fixed: h264 media type parsing sometimes crashed
* fixed: crash when no filter in the chain provided frame rate information
* fixed: one thread was started per video frame (introduced in v0.82)
* maybe fixed: entering/leaving exclusive mode steals keyboard focus

v0.85.1


* fixed: corruption on bottom image border with native h264 DXVA2 decoding
* fixed: DXVA2 scaling didn't work correctly
* fixed: color controls resulted in washed out image with J.River MC
* small DXVA2 decoding stability improvement
* limited DXVA2 decoding to not work on Windows XP
* limited DXVA2 decoding to not work when using the old FSE mode
* custom shaders are now compiled with wanted profile instead of always ps_3_0
* added "[DXVA2]" to debug log when DXVA2 decoding is used

* fixed: CoreAVC DXVA decoder didn't work (introduced in v0.85.1)
* fixed: ffdshow DXVA decoder didn't work
* fixed: when using DXVA2, sometimes BTB and WTW were lost
* fixed: thumbnail creation with MPC-HC sometimes didn't always
* fixed: Jinc option was sometimes incorrectly disabled
* fixed: 4:2:2/4:4:4 -> NV12 conversion routines used point sampling
* added dithering to 10/16bit -> NV12 conversion routines
* added SSE2 routine for P010/P016/P210/P216 -> NV12 conversion
* added options for custom display output levels
* added display specific color controls
* added volatile source color controls, with keyboard shortcuts
* brightness control now changes image gamma instead of white level
* contrast control now changes image contrast instead of black level
* custom shaders now run in PC levels (0-255) instead of TV levels
* added optimized DXVA copyback solution for NVidia and Intel GPUs
* optimized quality of DXVA2 NV12 -> HLSL NV12 conversion
* combined DXVA deinterlacing and DXVA scaling into one step
* modified DXVA scaling to now output RGB instead of NV12
* added color correction and auto-loading for new subtitle interface
* linear light processing might have gotten slightly faster

v0.85.3:
* fixed: when using DXVA2 scaling, colors were too bright by "257/256"
* fixed: freeze when disabling DXVA2 processing in the middle of playback
* fixed: green screen when disabling DXVA2 proc. in the middle of playback
* fixed: a non-default source rect made DXVA processing fail
* hopefully fixed: freezes with some DXVA decoders (MS, MPC-HC)
* hopefully fixed: incorrect colors when using DXVA2 decoding/processing
* added auto correction if FPS upstream info is wrong by 2x or 0.5x factor
* added code to silently suppress crashes in internal MPC-HC sub renderer
* added code to silently suppress decoder crashes during graph destruction
* added support for IVideoWindow::put_BorderColor()
* added double/triple expanded TV range to "source levels" toggle


v0.85.4:
* fixed: crash in certain situations when using native DXVA decoding
* fixed: native DXVA decoding sometimes produced wrong colors
* fixed: DXVA scaling sometimes produced wrong colors (old FSE mode)
* fixed: deinterlacing was always turned off with internal decoders
* fixed: frame stepping didn't work well with internal decoders
* added experimental option to "use a separate device for DXVA processing"
* added "trade quality" option "use half frame rate for DXVA deinterlacing"
* added "trade quality" option "store custom pixel shaders in 16bit buffer..."
* added "trade quality" option "run custom pixel shaders in video levels..."
* removed old tagging solution
* added tag "matrix=709|601|NTSC|PAL|YCgCo|240M"
* added tag "primaries=709|SmpteC|EBU|sRGB|NTSC|PAL|470M|240M|170M"
* added tag "levels=PC|TV|fullrange|limited|doubleExp|tripleExp"
* added tag "deint=On|Off|Video|Film"
* added tag "blacklevel=%value%", value range [-50, +50]
* added tag "whitelevel=%value%", value range [-50, +50]
* added tag "contrast=%value%", value range [-100, +100]
* added tag "brightness=%value%", value range [-100, +100]
* added tag "saturation=%value%", value range [-100, +100]
* added tag "hue=%value%", value range [-180, +180]
* added tag "frameRate=%value%", e.g. 23.976, 24.000, 23, 24, ...
* added tag "refreshRate=%value%", e.g. 23.976, 24.000, 23, 24, ...
* not-yet DXVA-deinterlaced frames are now never dropped, anymore
* video must now be >1050 wide or >576 high to be guessed as HD (ITU)
* changed order of "source levels" toggle

* fixed: 3:2 IVTC timestamps (film mode forced on) were not optimal
* fixed: files which turn from progressive to interlaced don't get deint
* fixed: SoftCubic + Mitchell produced artifacts with exact 3x scaling
* fixed: frame stepping sometimes froze for up to 3 seconds
* fixed: some bugs found through crash report emails
* fixed: videos with non-mod-4 height were unnecessarily cropped
* fixed: when using DXVA decoding, 60i clips sometimes switched to 30Hz
* fixed: "refreshRate" tag didn't work
* added "repeated frames" OSD info (only when framerate = refresh rate)
* added new interface IMadVRSubclassReplacement (for JRiver MC18)
* added support for "deint=ivtc" tag
* internal software video decoders are now disabled by default

* added smooth motion frame rate conversion algorithm
* added settings page for smooth motion frc configuration
* added "trade quality for performance" option for smooth motion frc
* added test patterns to madTestPatternSource to test smooth motion frc
* fixed: RGB input with odd width/height is now accepted untouched
* fixed: IVideoWindow::put_Owner() failed when pins were not connected yet
* fixed: madHcCtrl.exe autostart registry entry was incorrect / not working
* fixed: occasional crash when using DXVA scaling with high-bitdepth content
* fixed: green line at the left image border when using DXVA scaling
* file "settings.bin" is not written into win7/8 "VirtualStore", anymore
* slightly improved multi monitor behaviour (when using DXVA or MPC-BE)
* filter enumeration timer is now only active during DVD playback
* extended logging for fullscreen exclusive presentation queue
* internal software video decoders are now disabled by default (again)